Brooke Army Medical Center

News sure has changed over the past 40 years. Today, news of the shootings at Lone Star College broke on Twitter and spread across the internet before any traditional news outlet reported the news. But back in 1973 — 40 years ago today — CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite broke the news of former President […]
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You spent New Year’s Eve with your family and friends. Lt. Larkin O’Hern spent his leading an infantry platoon of the 101st Airborne Division serving in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Your biggest concern that day was determining which parties you would go to and how to get home safely. O’Hern, a West Point graduate, was clearing a Taliban compound near the village of Howz-e-Madad and trying to get his men back to their forward operating base safely.